4-6 Children's Selective Trust: The Use Of Cognitive Models

Selective trust when faced with multiple information providers,the individual information providers according to the different clues to discern their credibility,thus has the choice of believes someone.Research confirms that children have realized some people is worthy of trust,some people are not to be trusted,but in specific cognitive process,children tend to have the trust of the larger on cognitive object.Developmental psychologists put forward three kinds of cognitive foundations of selective trust,respectively "behavioral matching","global impression formation","trait reasoning".To explore children used in the selective trust what cognitive model,this study will be selective trust classic research paradigm "familiar-test" two stages of transformation,using the method of experiment,to explore the cognitive model of children using selective trust.The study subjects were selected from Yantai City,Qingdao City,and an ordinary kindergarten,a total of 89 children with children,using 3(behavioral consistency)×3(age)mixed experiment design.Two tests used the same group of subjects,respectively from cognitive trail and sociality trail to explore the use of cognitive foundations.Experimental results are as follows:(1)The cognitive foundation is not the only foundation of selective trust.Under the cognitive trail,4-year-olds used "trait reasoning",5,6 years old children used "global impression formation".(2)Under the sociality trail,4,5 years old children used "global impression formation",6-year-olds used "trait reasoning".